This Brexit deal would be a disaster for innovators and entrepreneurs | Deborah Meaden
by Deborah Meaden from on (#43WCT)
We need frictionless access to markets and to encourage startups to build their businesses in the UK. Not a second-best deal
You don't succeed in business by settling for second best, and successful entrepreneurs don't roll over and accept defeat. That's why I am so baffled by Carolyn Fairbairn's surrender on Brexit.
Writing in the Financial Times today Fairbairn, who heads the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and is supposed to be the voice of British business, says that the prime minister's deal is "not perfect" but that "the majority of businesses support it".
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